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encoderertoday at 5:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

my kids are not teenagers yet, what am I missing? the iPad I let them use has child safety enabled and it seems to do exactly what the comment above you is suggesting.


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marcosdumaytoday at 6:51 PM

What you are missing is that it's not enough for a fraction of devices to have parental control.

If you want kids to not access social networks, you need to have most of them out. If only a minority is out, they will just be outcast.

That said, "everybody must do that thing that Apple does" may be a very good example of good regulation. IDK what Apple does, though.

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hdgvhicvtoday at 5:25 PM

Apple does parental controls right. The easy path is parental controls.

Companies like epic and Microsoft dont. The easy path is just a default install

I suspect this is by design.